drudgery
Syllables: drudg·e·ry/ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi/
drudgery noun: exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
Noun
drudgery (countable and uncountable, plural drudgeries)
- Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
- What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.1878, Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene Champion Countrie and Seuerall”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […]...
- I may not dure this female drudgerie, / To ſea Æneas, finde out Italy.1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, Act IV, signature E3, recto
- Synonyms:
- chore, dogsbody work, fatigue, swink, toil, chores, drudgework, razzmatazz, scut, scutwork
drudgery meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
drudgery in Bengali
- কঠিন ও একঘেয়ে কাজ
drudgery in Telugu
- drudgery, unpaid work
- వెట్టి veṭṭi
- drudgery, chore
- ఊడిగము ūḍigamu
drudgery in Malayalam
- hard work, menial work, donkey work
- വിടുപണി, വിടുവൃത്തി, കഠിനവും വിരസവുമായ ജോലി, ദേഹണ്ഡം, അദ്ധ്വാനം, കഠിനാദ്ധ്വാനം
drudgery in Kannada
- ಬದಗು
Examples of drudgery in a sentence
- Not all drudgery should be arbitrarily attributed to women, nor all social, political, and economic recognition be attributed to men.1992, Amina Wadud, “Conclusion”, in Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective, New York N.Y.; Oxford...
- Engines that use fire have been sources of power and propulsion only in the past several centuries, and have succeeded in liberating humankind from drudgery.2007, Kalyan Annamalai, Ishwar K. Puri, “Introduction and Review of Thermodynamics”, in Combustion Science and Engineering (CRC Series in...
- I'm gonna do one last roly-poly before we go. [snorting, squealing] At least I had one moment of joy in a life of drudgery.2025 September 15, David A. Goodman, “The Trouble with Truffles” (18:04 from the start), in Futurama, season 10, episode 9, spoken by...
Synonyms of drudgery
- chore
- dogsbody work
- fatigue
- toil
- chores
- drudgework
- scut
- scutwork
- swink
- razzmatazz
Forms of drudgery
| plural | drudgeries |
|---|---|
| alternative form | drudgerie |
Origin of drudgery
From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).
Words formed from drudgery
Questions about drudgery
- What does drudgery mean?
- Drudgery means exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
- What is drudgery in Bengali?
- Drudgery in Bengali is কঠিন ও একঘেয়ে কাজ. See Drudgery meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use drudgery in a sentence?
- Not all drudgery should be arbitrarily attributed to women, nor all social, political, and economic recognition be attributed to men.
- What part of speech is drudgery?
- Drudgery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce drudgery?
- Drudgery is pronounced /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of drudgery?
- The plural of drudgery is drudgeries.
Words near drudgery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: drudgery (page history and authors); Drudgery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఊడిగము (Telugu) (page history and authors); drudgery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); drudgery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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